[juneau-lug] Re: visudo

  • From: James Zuelow <e5z8652@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 08:29:40 -0900

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 19:30:47 -0900
"Charles R. Hakari" <chakari@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I guess so. By reading the documentation, it made it sound like this 
> file should only be edited with visudo. I guess visudo does some special 
> things like locks and integrity checking, but I guess in a single user 
> environment, doing what you did is o.k. I'll give it a try. Thanks!
> 
> Chuck
> 

Chuck, you're right - all visudo does (and vipw, or vigroup) is lock that file 
down when it is being edited.  Otherwise it is straight vi.  There are no 
special vi modules loaded to check or highlight syntax, etc.  Which is too bad, 
because IMHO that would be very useful.

If you have no reason to suspect that another user on your system might try to 
take advantage of "insecure" temp files, etc. then you can use any editor to 
change the config files.

Cheers,

James

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